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The Promise of Schooling
Education in Canada, 1800-1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 1997
Between 1800 and 1914, Canadian society and its school systems were forged, populated, expanded and reformed. The Promise of Schooling explores the links between social and educational change in this complex and dynamic period. It raises and seeks to answer a number of questions: How extensive was...
Documenting First Wave Feminisms
Volume II Canada - National and Transnational Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
This book is the second of a two-volume anthology of primary source documents on feminism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unique in its extensive treatment of the first-wave feminist movement in Canada, it highlights distinct elements of its origins and evolution.
The book...
Growing a Sustainable City?
The Question of Urban Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Urban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment. These objectives connect to many cities’ broader goal of “sustainability,” but tensions among stakeholders have started to emerge...
by Nandor Dreisziger
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In Church and Society in Hungary and in the Hungarian Diaspora, Nándor Dreisziger tells the story of Christianity in Hungary and the Hungarian diaspora from its earliest years until the present. Beginning with the arrival of Christianity in the middle Danube basin, Dreisziger follows the fortunes...
Employment Equity in Canada
The Legacy of the Abella Report
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to examine...
Gompers in Canada
A Study in American Continentalism Before the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Samuel Gompers, the charismatic chief of the American Federation of Labor at the turn of the century, claimed to represent the interests of all workers in North America, but it was not until American corporations began to export jobs to Canada via branch plants that he became concerned with representing...
Racism in the Canadian University
Demanding Social Justice, Inclusion, and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The mission statements and recruitment campaigns for modern Canadian universities promote diverse and enlightened communities. Racism in the Canadian University questions this idea by examining the ways in which the institutional culture of the academy privileges Whiteness and Anglo-Eurocentric ways...
Racialized Migrant Women in Canada
Essays on Health, Violence and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Despite legislative guarantees of equality, immigrant women in Canada often experience many forms of prejudice in their everyday lives. Racialized Migrant Women in Canada delves into the public and private spheres of several distinct communities in order to expose the underlying inequalities within...
Public Policy For Women
The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2009
Containing essays from leading feminist academics, and social activists, Public Policy for Women addresses important public policy issues that fail to address women's needs. The volume's contributors pay particular attention to the relationship between the welfare state and vulnerable populations...
Fishing in Contested Waters
Place & Community in Burnt Church/Esgenoopetitj
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
After the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1999 Marshall decision recognized Mi’kmaw fishers’ treaty right to fish, the fishers entered the inshore lobster fishery across Atlantic Canada. At Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj, New Brunswick, the Mi’kmaw fishery provoked violent confrontations with neighbours...
From Equality to Inequality
Social Change Among Newly Sedentary Lanoh Hunter-Gatherer Traders of Peninsular Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
The egalitarian society once enjoyed by the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia is quickly changing. Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh, Csilla Dallos studied and interpreted social change in order to better understand the processes leading to inequality and the...
Green Japan
Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
As climate change continues to threaten both our economic and ecological well-being, countries around the world are trying to implement green strategies that will simultaneously curb emissions and spur economic growth.
Green Japan critically examines the Japanese effort to combine economic...
The Guardian
Perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2011
Finance departments have often been portrayed as guardians of the public purse. In The Guardian, a multidisciplinary group of contributors examines the Ministry of Finance of Ontario since the Second World War. During the last sixty years the Ministry was transformed from a relatively small 'Treasury'...
First Nations Education Policy in Canada
Progress or Gridlock?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
How can First Nations schools in Canada offer a curriculum that is at once authentically and deeply Aboriginal while comparable in content, quality, and standards to provincial and territorial education? First Nations Education Policy in Canada is a critical analysis of policy developments affecting...